The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-18

AT the New York dairy and cattle show,
at Madison Square Garden last week, the
following premiums were awarded to Yer
mont butter: Five packages, not less than
thirty pounds each net, first, Green Noun
tain Stock Farm Company, West Randolph.
Package not less than thirty pounds net,
made at private farm or dairy first, Green
Mountain Stock Farm Company, West
Randolph.
A CIRCULAR has Just been issued to physi-
clans by the state board Of health contain
ing questions concerning topography, dis
eases, etc, that the causes and nature of
those maladies which depend upon locality
or season for their prevalence may be thor
oughly understood DIR. G. L. Allen, secre-
tary of the board is also preparing circu-
lar for the state board of health, copies of
which, when completed and published, will
be sent to all the town superintendent of
schools in the state. The circular will set
forth what should be done to make the SAM
tary conditions of school buildings as perfect
as possible.
In General.
MORE serious floods on the Penobscot
Maine.
TEN thousand miners are on a strike in
Belgium.
ZuLULAND has been proclaimed British
possession.
GERMANY will not participate in the Paris
exposition.
JACOB SHARP, the New York booder,"
is now on trial
A PLAGUE of caterpillars is reported in
South Carolina.
Mr.. PARNELL's health is worse since his
journey to London.
The Pennsylvania legislature has passed
the high license bill
FIFTY houses at Fresno Cal, were burned
Monday; loss $4,000.
SEVERAL earthquake shocks were felt in
Smyrna the past week.
TEN thousand workmen are idle in the
building trades of Chicago.
THREE more slight shocks of earthquake
were felt in Arizona Friday.
THE London Times is publishing fresh
accusations against the Parnellites.
EARLvILLE, Ont, has been almost de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is S150,000.
LIST bequeathed Mozart's piano and
Haydn's baton to the city of Vienna.
WOMAN suffrage was defeated by the
Pennsylvania house of representatives.
HALF the town of Minot, Dakota, has
been burned. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
JOHN SHERMAN will deliver speech at
Springfield, ILL.,, June on national politics.
WILLIAM o. BRADLEY has been nominated
for governor of Kentucky by the republicans.
The will of the widow of Richard Bond
of Boston gives $4,000 to Dartmouth Col
lege.
THE forest fires on Cape Cod last week
extended twenty miles and covered 10000
acres.
The late Chef-justice Young of Nova
Scotia left $4,000 for charity and edu-
cation.
The Methodist church and parsonage at
Darien, Ct, were burned Saturday; loss
about $1,000.
Ir is stated that the winter losses of cattle
on the great western ranges have been much
exaggerated.
THE Queen of Hawaii gave reception
at the Mechanics building, Boston, to about
10000 people.
AN important convention of fruit grower S
at Dover, Del, resolved to dispense with
the middlemen.
The Boston ship " Ocean King" has
been burned in the North Pacific. The
crew were saved.
TREASURE of the estimated value of $780,
100000 has beeen found secreted in palace
at Gwaior, India.
THE President has appointed j. w. Hyatt
United States treasurer in place of G. n
Jordan, resigned
THE Illinois legislature is considering a
bill to prevent paupers, lunatics and con-
victs from marrying.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES has been urged to
! accept the presidency of the Ohio State
| University at Columbus.
CARDINAL SIMEoNI conveys the Pope's adj
vice to the Irish bishops to abstain from
associating with agitators.
HARTFORD Theological Seminary alumni
! passed resolution condemnatory of the So
called progressive theology.
WILLIAM II. SANFORD at Washington
| Ind, killed his son, whom he mistook for {
burglar, Saturday morning.
HEAVY forest fires are reported from Ken
nebunk and Bangor, Maine, northern Michi
gan and northern Rhode Island,
THE Encouragement of Iowa has in
structed the sheriffs to enforce the prohib
ton law regardless of federal officers.
THE mayor of Cork being officially asked
to assist in the Queens jubilee, replied tina
| the invitation was an insult to an lrishman
r. III. EDDY, the well-known solicitor o
patents died at Boston Friday of heart dis
ease. He was seventy-ive years old
AN Augusta dispatch to the Boston Glob
declares that Blaine will not go abroad thi
summer, but will remain at Bar Harbor.
The Parnellites are making desperat,
and not altogether unsuccessful fgh
against the passage of the coercion bill.
TEN thousand immigrants were landed a
Castle Garden last week Wednesday. Thi
is the largest number ever landed in one day
A GANG of laborers dug up den of rattle
snakes at Shenandoah After lively fgh
one man was bitten and twenty-eight snake
killed.
AT Peoria, ILL.,, the Union Seed Drill
Works of Selby, Starr & Company wer
burned with loss of 100000; insured TO
$4,000.
THE Toronto board of trade, after a Ion,
discussion, voted that free-trade shoul,
prevail between the United States ant
Canada.
A FIRE at Holland on the Canada
Pacific railroad, Saturday night, destroyed
hotel and several large storehouses. Los
$4,000.
Mrs. U. S. GRANT is recovering from
severe attack of diphtheria, which early i
the week threatened her life. She is no.
out of danger.
News has been received from the Tong
Islands in the South Pacific of the massacr
of another party of Wesleyan missionarie
by the natives
THERE were slight earthquakes at Eureka
tura, Cal, last week Thursday. No dan
age is reported.
The whole peninsula of northern Mich
gan and Wisconsin is enveloped in smok
from forest fires which are doing great dam
age everywhere.
THE Pope warns DR.. McGlynn once fC
all il he does not present himself before tn
Pope within forty days he will be formal
communicated.
THE Cedar Lake shops of the Mnneapol